أَكربهُ

[He, or it, affected him with كَرْب, i. e. sorrow, grief, distress, or affliction: occurring in the TA in several places.]

-A2- اكرب, verbal noun إِكْرَابٌ, He filled (K) a skin. (TA.)

اكرب الإِنَاءَ He nearly filled the vessel: [as also اقربه]. (TA.)

See 1.

-A3- اكرب, verbal noun إِكْرَابٌ, (tropical:) He hastened, or sped: (S, K:) he ran, in the manner termed إِحْضَار and عَدْو. (AZ.) You say, خُذْ رِجْلَيْكَ بِإِكْرَابٍ [Take up thy feet with speed,] when you order one to hasten in his pace. (S.) In this sense, أَكْرَبَ is said of a man, but seldom; and of a horse, or other animal that runs. (Lth, Lh.)